pastil

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Stood there not behind the pulpit-stairs the sacristy-cabin, and in this was there not a church-library of consequence--no school-boy could have buckled it wholly in his book-strap--lying under the minever cover of pastil dust?

From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul

As for Tom Moore, some of his songs diffused an odor like a burning pastil.

From Earth's Holocaust (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Stood there not behind the pulpit-stairs the sacristy-cabin, and in this was there not a church-library of consequence—no schoolboy could have buckled it wholly in his book-strap—lying under the minever cover of pastil dust?

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas

"Well, then, let it be so," said Monte-Cristo sternly, as he took a greenish, strongly smelling pastil from a box cut from an opal.

From The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I by Lermina, Jules

The use of charcoal in a pastil is merely for burning, producing, during its combustion, the heat required to quickly volatilize the perfuming material with which it is surrounded.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus